mounting windows hard drive

hello! Im trying to mount a windows hard drive on Linux to copy some files over but I'm having a bit of trouble. My Linux hard drive is my primary master (hda right?) while my Windows hard drive is my secondary master (hdc right?). Well I edited /etc/fstab and added this line:

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/dev/hdc            /mnt/hdc                vfat          defaults    0  0

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As I understand it, that should tell Linux to mount /dev/hdc (secondary master, ie Windows) on /mnt/hdc letting it know that its a vfat filesystem type. But when I run 'mount /dev/hdc' as root in a terminal, it says:

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error

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'dmesg | tail' gives me:

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FAT: Bogus number of FAT structure
VFS: Cant find valid FAT filesystem on device hdc

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Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

You must name the partition, for example hdc1, hdc2, etc not just hdc.
If you have problems, the output of "fdisk -l" as root "su -" may be useful

it says "special device hdb1 does not exist"

it was hdc1, sorry

ok now I can mount it but the files I'm seeing aren't files that are on my hard drive. Could I be looking at the wrong partition? I'm trying to look in C:\ and these look like files that would be in D:\

Try hdc1 and hdc2

hdc1 is what i just tried and hdc2 says wrong fs type

post the output of "fdisk -l" as root "su -"

ok here's what I get:

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Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/hda1  *          1          14      105808+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2              15        5169    38971800  8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdc: 30.0 GB, 30060527616 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3883 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/hdc1              1        677    5118088+  b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc2  *        678        3882    24229800    7  HPFS/NTFS

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hda is the one with Linux on it. hdc is the one I'm trying to mount.

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Originally Posted by prejudged_fire

hdc1 is what i just tried and hdc2 says wrong fs type

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hdc2 is NTFS and RH/Fedora doesn't support NTFS out of box. download NTFS patch from www.linux-ntfs.org. patch name *should* match with kernel version.

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